17yo DSD Wants Rental Place - How Feasible?

[Lulu]

Dd initially moved in with a friend and friends mother. I found out within a few weeks it was actually a boarding house, so alerted the authorities that she was in potential danger and tapped in with a youth agency in the area. They arranged accomodation for her with a lead tenant in a supervised house. She is doing VCE and determined to stay at school and it was deemed in everyones best interests at the time. It has worked out very well as the house is practically next to the school. There would be nowhere else for her to go otherwise.

Your DD won't be eligible for this scenario though, as there are no 'family problems' iykwim. She won't be eligible for unreasonable to live at home UNLESS it's because you are moving more than 90 minutes from her school . I still think it goes on your income anyway so that's out for her. And you aren't kicking her out either, and she isn't at school anymore (?)

[fionas]

Thanks Lulu - that's interesting and really good to hear that your DD is going well.

I think by public transport our new house IS about 90 mins from her current school (not wanting to move school and move away from friends is THE major factor in wanting to move out). But if it goes on income, we'd probably be ineligible. But I'd better go see what the threshold is - the last time I checked I wasn't pregnant so I was basing it on two wages.

In theory, she's still at school but has had a lot of absences so it may get to the point where the school doesn't allow her to finish VCE - DP needs to discuss that with them. That's one of the reasons why I think moving out may be good for her. It's looking unlikely that she will finish school. If she wants to rent a place, she will HAVE to find a job. She won't find a job if she's living with us because it's too easy not to. And at least if she has a job, she will build up a work history and be more employable than if she carried on at school in a half-arsed way and came out with a crappy VCE result and no work history. If she stuffs up the job, she loses her rental place and her independence - a big incentive to get up and get her arse into work.

[PumpkinZulu]

She won't be eligible for unreasonable to live at home UNLESS it's because you are moving more than 90 minutes from her school . I still think it goes on your income anyway so that's out for her. And you aren't kicking her out either, and she isn't at school anymore (?)

She would still be eligable for unreasonable to live at home I think Lulu. The reason DF put was that it was causing undue stress on all parties, there was constant arguing/fighting, and all of this was distrupting his studies and he wanted to be indipendant, so he was. The froms don't say anything about school, it just asks you to list the reasons why you consider it unreasonable to live at home etc etc.

Unreasonable to live at home

ETA: If she's not at school I'm not sure how easy it would be for her to recieve it, if at all...but I guess there's no harm looking into it?